Elswick on the western side of Newcastle in 1847.Early products included hoists for the docks at Liverpool, underground engines for coal mines, and machinery for lead mines and dressing plants in Co Durham

docks on the opposite side of the River Mersey from Liverpool. Brassey met George Stephenson who was seeking stone for the Sankey Viaduct on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, and Stephenson encouraged him

Bromborough on the Wirral peninsula, conveniently situated for the supply of palm oil imported into Liverpool. By 1861 more than 90 houses had been erected, the majority terraced dwellings, with living room

first large screw-propelled iron ship, that was built in Bristol and made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York in 1845. The company that owned her became bankrupt after she ran ashore in Northern

similar trips were organised on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway soon after its opening in 1830. In 1845 Cook organised his first commercial trip from Leicester to Liverpool, for which he produced a 60-page

returned to England, working at first with Jesse Hartley (1780-1860) on the building of docks in Liverpool. In 1845 he became chief engineer to the Manchester & Leeds Railway, and the worked for the Lancashire

first European skyscraper was erected by the Royal Liver Insurance Company in 1909 in the port of Liverpool. The next step was taken in the 1920s by the engineer Eugène Freyssinet: he had the steel cables

created the first independent Black republic of Haiti. The International Slavery Museum will be at Liverpool´s Albert Dock, at the centre of a World Heritage site. The location is only yards away from the dry [...] repaired and fitted out. One of the greatest groups of national museums in the world, National Museums Liverpool is ideally placed to elevate this subject onto an international stage. Our existing Transatlantic

his business was with his bother Julius who took over the De Jersey company and opened offices in Liverpool and New York. He founded over a hundred separate textile operations, for weaving, dyeing and printing

process was copied by industrialists in the north of England, first near Newcastle and later near Liverpool: regions where sea salt and coal were readily available. By 1880, 120 works in Britain used it.

The city’s industrial museum is at Armley Mills, located between the River Aire and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. There have been mills on the site since the middle ages, and in 1788 five water wheels provided

The sole remaining first class ticket for the Titanic and the complete log book of a Liverpool slave-trader: these are just two of the treasures to be found in the Maritime Museum. Here within the historic [...] cotton passed through its dockyards on their way to the booming English textile mills. In its turn Liverpool exported a broad selection of British factory goods, sometimes even complete prefabricated houses

Lion steam locomotive built in Leeds in 1838 for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Public transport is represented by vehicles from the Liverpool underground, the overhead railway that served the docks [...] The Museum of Liverpool is one of the group of national museums in the city that includes the International Slavery Museum and the Maritime Museum. It covers topics from prehistoric archaeology to The [...] The Beatles. It opened on the historic waterfront as the Museum of Liverpool Life in 1993 and moved in 2011 to a new building conceived by the Danish architects 3XN. The ground-floor displays focus on the

g districts in the Midlands and the North, during which he sketched the locomotive Rocket near Liverpool, explored textile mills in Manchester, and recorded his impression of the ironworks at Coalbrookdale [...] Bridgewater Foundry at Patricroft, west of Manchester, alongside the Bridgewater Canal and near the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. In 1839 Nasmyth designed the A-framed steam hammer, with the intention that

France, the Roșia Montană Mining Landscape in Romania, and the Trans-Iranian Railway . By contrast, Liverpool, one of England's most important maritime trading cities and a pioneer in the development of advanced

had been operating on the Blackpool Promenade tramway for five years. The company electrified the Liverpool Overhead railway and by 1894 Thomas was presented with the George Stephenson medal by the Institute

Prudential architecture, and company offices were built in the same style in other British cities, in Liverpool in 1885 and in Huddersfield in 1898, for example. In 1892 the company reminded Waterhouse that the

head of water provided by the River Bollin and its proximity to the Bridgewater Canal and thus Liverpool. As the Greg enterprise flourished the Mill itself was extended and a working community established

Canal of Ireland. His maritime projects included commercial docks and harbours in London, Dublin, Liverpool, Hull and Glasgow and the Royal Navy dockyard at Woolwich. He also designed the stone breakwater

at Horsehay, Shropshire. She began her maiden voyage on 26 July 1845, crossing to New York from Liverpool in 14 days, but her career as an Atlantic passenger line was cut short in 1846 when she ran aground